Hi all, I tried google, and the suggestion i got after going through some sites, is to install the third OS and not install ny boot loader but use a boot disk to boot the third OS.
will try this out and post my experience..
bhushan.. tnx fr the info..I've got a 80 GB hdd so after my 15th GB still got 65GB .....;)
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On 20 Sep 2003, Balajee C wrote:
I tried google, and the suggestion i got after going through some sites, is to install the third OS and not install ny boot loader but use a boot disk to boot the third OS.
I have three OSen on my PC, booting through lilo. Lilo can boot any number of OSen. BSD needs to be on a primary partition though.
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Hi all, I tried google, and the suggestion i got after going through some sites, is to install the third OS and not install ny boot loader but use a boot disk to boot the third OS.
will try this out and post my experience..
I guess the limitation should be the hdd size that you have. At present I have winduhs, RH 9, Debian woody, Slackware 9, and knoppix 3.2 on a 40 g hdd (of which I can only use 32 G --limitation of bios :( ) And this is just my primary master. Primary slave has winduhs, RH 8 (on two partitions) and debian. I intend adding mandrake and maybe freebsd.
For me, grub will not boot a distro from a logical partition but lilo will. It will even boot a distro on the second hdd.
Here's my fdisk output:
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Disk /dev/hda: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 319 2562336 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 320 957 5124735 83 Linux /dev/hda3 958 1595 5124735 83 Linux /dev/hda4 1596 4111 20209770 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1596 1627 257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 1628 2010 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda7 2011 2393 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda8 2394 2776 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2777 3159 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda10 3160 3542 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda11 3543 4111 4570461 82 Linux swap
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Disk /dev/hdb: 9115 MB, 9115361280 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1108 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 192 1542208+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdb2 * 193 479 2305327+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 480 766 2305327+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 767 1108 2747115 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 767 782 128488+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb6 783 946 1317298+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 947 1108 1301233+ 83 Linux
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hth,
sharukh.
On Monday 22 September 2003 22:22, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
have winduhs, RH 9, Debian woody, Slackware 9, and knoppix 3.2 on a
40 g
hdd (of which I can only use 32 G --limitation of bios :( ) And this
is
GNU/Linux does not use the bios. So if you install a distro above 32GB it will still work fine - subject to /boot and windoze living below 32GB.
just my primary master. Primary slave has winduhs, RH 8 (on two
partitions)
and debian. I intend adding mandrake and maybe freebsd.
For me, grub will not boot a distro from a logical partition but
Grub can boot from any partition and media (including flash and usbflashdrive (experimental), irrespective of the partitioning and mounting scheme. AFAIK lilo can't boot from usb ;-]. Morover it's console feature is a boon to me (I keep swapping drives). Also you do not need to reinstall grub if your kernel or disk (other than the one grub is installed on) changes, just edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
But then the beauty of GNU is it's choice of religion - use grub, lilo, xosl whatever.
rgds jtd
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